He and two other m. D. s indicted today on some very serious charges. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is a major pill mill bust by the justice department. Authorities say three doctors sold to addicts and drug dealers. Action News Reporter dann cuellar live on South Broad Street in philadelphia. Dann, it is an ugly story. Reporter it really is, jim. According to the federal indictment the three scheming doctors operating their nowdefunct clinic on south broad, a booming business selling 5 million worth of pills. Doctors rather than helping people, are contributing to this absolute crisis in our societies. Named in the indictment is the alleged ringleader alan summers and his cohortses, azad khan and keyhosrow parsia. Operating under the Name National association for substance abuseprevention treatment, dr. Summers makes his pitch to unexpected families. The recovery person is damaged and injured by the misconception and fallacies, and getting the support
Evening, and for the early part of tonight. 51 Miles Per Hour projected wind gusts on the vineyard. Between 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour for the wind, but noticed tuesday things start to quiet down a bit. The wind whipping out there but not quite as bad. Damaging wind threat will be done for tuesday. Tonight we still could be tracking the potential for some damaging wind gusts. More on that, eric. Reporter is interesting. We talked about the drought and how the trees have had a really rough year. They are ea now. Even inland away from the coast, we have seen damage throughout the course of the day. This is actually destruction from a tree that fell from strong winds. This fence is where the tree fell. This is actually where it fell. It will show you even more debris on the sidewalks. Street still. Earlier, the street was shut off to fix powerlines because this tree also fell on that cutting off electricity to this neighborhood. I said, thank god i wasnt in there. Stepping out of his truck o
Looks like one more rounds every rain at least moving through part of our viewing area, not necessarily the whole thing moving west to east, because a lot of it is moving to the north. But you see there is some new showers in Lancaster County, berks county, and up in the lehigh valley. Still remains to be seen whether this will make it to philadelphia. But it looks like we may not be completely finished with rain yet. But the worse is indeed over. But as you know, even after there are flooding situations, even after the rain has ended the flooding continues where we are going with. That will Coastal Flood Advisory until 6 00 for the counties highlighted if green. Out in lancaster count a flood advisory, as well. So here we are with 57 degrees. This may end up being the highest temperature of the day because after that last rounds of rain is out of here well see temperatures fall throughout the afternoon. It is windy out there. Folks, 21 miles an hour winds, we have 55 in pottstown, it
The bedroom, all came running in, running in, the kids, little party. It was cuddle time. Yes, i was cuddling a frightened dog at 10 00 p. M. Last night. How is billy . Hes fine. Did you rub hirsutumy . Very much. No, i mean, we got a mess out there right now. Some of the hardest rain ive ever seen in my life. It was pretty bad. And this is more typical of april. Yes. And it is still february, folks. But that was very spring type weather pattern that we had come through. It is a six out of ten for today, with bus stop buddy, he does have the umbrella, because there are still some showers around. Last of the system comes through, this is colds front, after it comes through temperatures will go down, already done since last hour, 54 degrees, last hour was 57. Sunrise time 6 41 this morning, officially, we have 52 in pottstown, 49 in reading, and 46 degrees in lancaster, so, we keep looking at this map and seeing temperatures drop throughout the morning. Mostly cloudy with a stray shower
Expensive, people dont hesitate to buy them. People who want to drink soda are still going to drink soda. Some dont mifind it that simple. Some who can ain order to drive to the county line will go there, do their onestop shopping. Reporter hours before the hearing, antitax groups swarmed city hall. So did 18 wheelers featuring logos of soda companies. Recently, groups for and against are spending a lot of money to push their agenda before the new budget passes. Despite the financial backing, its an issue keeping parents on both sides of the fence up at night. The sole provider for my home. I work 60 to 80 hours per week. This soda tax goes through myself along with 2,000 other people with families will lose their jobs. If we dont give our children a chance, if they dont give our children a chance, theyre destined for penitentiary. Reporter people we spoke to who are against the tax suggested the mayor either raise the sales tax or cut costs in the budget as an alternative. Tonight, ma